wikipedia wrote:Schrödinger's Cat: A cat, along with a flask containing a poison, is placed in a sealed box shielded against environmentally induced quantum decoherence. The flask is shattered, releasing the poison if a Geiger counter detects radiation. Quantum mechanics suggests that after a while the cat is simultaneously alive and dead, in a quantum superposition of coexisting alive and dead states. Yet when we look in the box we expect to see the cat either alive or dead, not a mixture of alive and dead.

Lets assume instead of a cat we have a human. And a person (Bob) places another human (Alice) inside the box and seals the box close. Some time later Charles opens the box and sees Alice dead.

I'd say that they are both responsible - Bob for creating the situation that he knew could kill Alice, and Charles for accidentally "pulling the trigger," so-to-speak. Intent goes a long way in determining sentence, but it does not absolve one from reality.

If you see someone hanging by their fingernails off a cliff, about to fall, and there is a rope and a large rock so you could get them up, but you decide not to, and you let them fall - is that murder?

thedotmaster wrote:If you see someone hanging by their fingernails off a cliff, about to fall, and there is a rope and a large rock so you could get them up, but you decide not to, and you let them fall - is that murder?